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Woody Allen stars as Val Waxman, a two-time Oscar winner turned washed-up, neurotic director in desperate need of a comeback. When it comes, Waxman...

The activities of rampaging, indiscriminate serial killer Ben are recorded by a willingly complicit documentary team, who eventually become his...

After a film student gets his belongings stolen, he meets a mobster bearing a startling resemblance to a certain cinematic godfather. Soon, he finds...

Is there room for principle in Los Angeles? Mike Terry teaches jujitsu and barely makes ends meet. His Brazilian wife, whose family promotes fights,...

A young taxi driver who is a happy man encounters lots of different stories through his daily life. One day, he is driving a young American woman and...

The turbulent personal and professional life of actor Peter Sellers (1925-1980), from his beginnings as a comic performer on BBC Radio to his huge...

While attending a retrospect of his work, a filmmaker recalls his life and his loves: the inspirations for his films.

The traveler who never leaves his cabinet – that’s what his contemporaries used to call Jules Verne. He was a person with an...

A Hollywood studio executive is being sent death threats by a writer whose script he rejected - but which one?

Director F.W. Murnau makes a Faustian pact with a vampire to get him to star in his 1922 film "Nosferatu."

A filmmaker recalls his childhood, when he fell in love with the movies at his village's theater and formed a deep friendship with the theater's...